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NINETY EIGHTH YEAB
16 PAGES
The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon. Friday. April 30. 1941
Price le
Ho. 40
At Eugene the Register-Guard
has reported the loss of many
thousands of dollars to the county
because the county court sold off
its foreclosed timber lands at
prices based on 50c or $1.00 per
thousand board feet of standing
timber. It cites this as an argu
ment for a county manager form
of government a charter for which
is to be voted on in Lane county
next month.
The Register-Guard did not re
port however that Lane county
has turned over for administration
as state forests some 20,000 acres
of its lands. On one portion of
these lands where the delinquent
tax was $2,500, the state forester's
office has made a cruise and sold
the old timber at $24 a thousand,
which will bring in $360,000 of
which the county will get 75 per
cent.
Counties should never have sold
their timberlands, Marion county
which had comparatively little
foreclosed timberland has turned
over to the state 17,871 acres which
are being administered by the Ftate
forester: and the county will re
ceive for distribution among tax
ing units 75 per cent of the in
come from sales of forest prod
ucts. State forests now amount to
about 500.000 acres. They ought
to be many times that. But after
the law was passed setting up the
state forest system big timber and
lumber concerns got busy to hold
or acquire cutover lands, so the
counties had much less to turn
over to the state.
Already under this management
the state forests are yielding good
returns. Clumps of old growth
are sold, also cordwood. chittim
bark, etc. The income has been
large enough to pay off revenue
(Continued on editorial page)
May Week End
Starts Today
On WU Campus
By Jim Oases
Statesman Campus Correspondent
Willamette university's 39th an
nual May Week end festivities
will begin at 11 a.m. today at
Waller hall when the university's
four sororities. Delta Gamma.
Alpha Chi Omega, Chi Omega and
Pi Beta Phi compete in a sing
ing contest.
The three-day week end, which
will be ruled over by May Queen
Joyce Patton, Salem, and her
two princesses, Vergie Wicks,
Salem, and Dorothy Deal, Long
view, Wash., will officially be
gin for the freshmen at 6 in the
morning, however, when they
clean the campus until morning
classes begin at 8.
Much Preparation
The week end climaxes six
weeks of preparation by innum
erable students under the direc
tion of manager Ray Yocom, Riv
erside, 111., and his assistant man
agers Helen Larson. Bend, Bar
bara MacDuffee, Portland, Leon
ard Maurer, Wendall, Idaho. Ray
Atkinson. San Mateo, Calif., and
Robert McMullen, Taft.
Following the intersorority sing
the all-school barbecue will be
held on Sweetland field at noon
and the freshmen and sopho
mores will compete in a grease
pole climb and tug-of-war at 1
p.m.
Baseball Game
Three other events, a baseball
game between Willamette and
Vanport at 2:30 on Sweetland, a
tea for the royal court at 3:30 at
Lausanne hall and the univer
sity workshop's musical comedy
"Roberta" will complete Friday
festivities.
The May day parade, featuring
flowered floats decorated by all
of the campus living organiza
tions will start at 1:15 tomorrow
afternoon followed by the queen's
coronation ceremonies at Eaton
hall at 2:30.
The coronation will be broad
cast, 2:30 to 3, over KOCO, with
Dave Beckett, staff announcer
and a Willamette student, in
charge.
BACK LARGE AIR FORCE
WASHINGTON, April 29 -(A3)
The senate appropriations com
mittee today okayed a funds bill
lor a 70-group air force and the
senate may begin debate on it
tomorrow.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
"Janios so exerted about
the Msy Day dance he's thm
pole."
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FRINCESS PAT RICE
Silverton
DRISILLA MINDEN
Sublimity
ANITA FORREST
DELORES DUNIWAT
Falls City
Latest Cherry
Fete Princess
From Silverton
Pat Rice, brunette, hazel-eyed
senior, has been chosen to repre
sent Silverton high school as a
princess in Cherryland court dur
ing the Cherry festival in Silem
from July 15 to 18.
The fourth member of the court
to be chosen to date. Princess Pat
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
C. Rice of 602 Miller -st. in Silver
ton. She is 5 feet 3 inches tall.
Besides engaging in numerous extra-curricular
school activities, Pat
works as an usherette in a theatre
in the evenings.
She is art editor of the high
school year book, "The Silver
tonia," is adept at skiing and
swimming and draws and writes
skits for hobbies.
Three new candidates for the
royal court chosen this week are
Anita Forrest, Stayton high school
senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. Ward Forrest of Stayton; Dru
silla Minden, senior at St. Boni
face high school. Sublimity,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
Minden of Sublimity; and Delores
Duniway of Falls City high school.
The three most recent candi
dates will be included in a group
of Marion county area and paro
chial school representatives who
will be judged and selected to fill
three positions in the Cherryland
court. The judging will be held at
Waller hall at Willamette univer
sity May 7.
'Businesslike' Power
Operations Urged
EUGENE, April 29-P)-Bonne-ville
Administrator Paul J. Raver
Thursday stated that the govern
ment should handle its power op
erations in a "business manner or
get out of the business.'
Dr. Raver spoke briefly to tide
Bonneville regional advisory coun
cil at the close of the group's morn
ing session of the regional meet
ing here.
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To Close
Today
BOGOTA, Colombia, April 29
7P)- Delegates of the 21 American
republics will sign tomorrow a 5,
000 - word pact creating a new or
ganization of American states
(CAPS OAS) and pledging them
to work for the peace and security
of the western hemisphere through
cooperative action.
The ninth inter - American con
ference will close with the signing
ceremony at 4 p. m.
Resolutions against international
communism and foreign colonies
in America also will be signed.
Aims at Peace
The first article of the new char
ter of the organization of Ameri
can states, the text of which was
released tonight, says "The Amer
ican states consecrate in this char
ter the international organization
they have developed to arrive at
order, peace and justice, to devel
op their solidarity, to increase
their collaboration, to defend their
sovereignty, territorial integrity
and Independence."
112 Articles
There are 112 articles which de
fine the principles of Pan-Americanism
and the rights and duties
of the member states. They also
provide for peaceful solution of
controversies and collective secur
ity, list economic and cultural ob
jectives and outline the functions
of six subsidiary organizations.
Navy Reserve
Gives Awards
To 7 Litizens
Seven local citizens were pre
sented awards Thursday night by
the U. S. Naval Reserve in appre
ciation for their part in naval re
serve recruiting in the Salem area.
Presentations were made during
appropriate ceremonies at the U.
S. Naval Reserve temporary train
ing center on the south side of the
municipal airport during the
meeting of Salem USNR unit 13
28. Awards were . made by Lt.
Comdr. W. Vern Gilmore to Chan
dler Brown, chairman of the local
naval recruiting committee for the
chamber of commerce; Mayor Ro
bert L. Elf strom; Robert Fischer,
KSLM advertising manager; Dave
Hoss, former program director for
KOCO; Harlan Judd, Marion
county clerk; Margaret Magee,
Capital Journal writer, and
Charles A. Sprague, publisher of
the Oregon Statesman.
Bids are now in the approval
stage in Washington, D. C, for the
construction of a new naval re
serve armory here to house the
local unit. Construction on the
building is expected to begin as
soon as approved bids are receiv
ed here.
Corvallis School
Budget Approved
CORVALLIS, April 29-P)-Two
expansion measures for Corvallis
schools held voter approval today.
In a special election yesterday,
voters authorized a school budget
$127,915 beyond the 6 per cent lim
itation by a margin of 322 to 155.
A slightly larger majority, 323 to
152, approved a 5-mill tax for five
years to provide a building fund.
Politics on Parade . . .
Who's Running for What in the May Primaries !
(Editor : Coasmeota la tfcls
aeries are amaSe fcy or for the eaaoi
Aatea wttJkoot restrtettoo. aao "T
or msy oot reflect the pettcjr of this
haws paper.)
Teoay't aokjocti
Stanley Jones (r)
Candidate for
Attorney General
Stanley Jones, candidate for re
nub li can nomination to the office
of attorney general
is a dynamic and
for Oregon,
colorful fig ure
He was born and
reared to early
manhood in the
t
ces of Texas and
i
uie great souua
west, where he
earned monty.
for his college
'ZJ
education as f 1 1 C
cowboy on the!
range. Stanley Jones
After his discharge from the
army in 1920, he came to Oregon,
where he decided to become a
lawyer. He entered Northwestern
College of Law in 1924 and was
graduated and admitted to the bar
in 1926.
His determination to succeed in
his chosen profession is shown by
the extreme care and painstaking
s ft
Helicopter Braves
Gunfire to Rescue
Air Crash Victim
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April
29 -(JPy- The crew of an air
force helicopter braved a hail
of machine gun bullets yester
day to rescue an injured fighter
pilot after he crash - landed
his ship on mud flats.
The P-51 exploded and burst
into flames shortly after Pilot
Lt. Ralph Van Kerhove of Chi
cago scrambled from it.
The helicopter crew intercep
ted a distress signal over the
radio and went to the rescue.
They found the pilot, suffering
from shock and superficial cuts,
lying on the ground 300 feet
from the plane. With exploding
.50-caliber ammunition popping
al around, they landed and took
the pilot aboard.
Kerhove was in a hospital in
less than 30 minutes.
Supporters of
George Flagg
Form Group
Supporters of George H. Flagg,
Salem, republican candidate for
; Oregon secretary of state, met
' with the former utilities com
' missioner in the Marion hotel
' Thursday night to form a county
' wide organization to wcrk for
; his election in the May primaries,
j Cliff Lewis of Salem was elect
led president of the Marion county
j Flagg - for - secretary - of - state
j committee and Woody Woodron,
I Robert Drager and Tomeo Gou
! ley were chosen Salem vice pres
I ident.
I Other vice presidents selected
to direct Flagg campaign in the
! county are Frank Burhnpham.
Woodburn; Charles Hoyt. Silver
ton; and W. L Jones, Jefferson.
Burr Miller was elected treas-
urer and Mrs. Katherine Gouley,
j secretary. Both are from Salem.
I Jim Cook of Salem presided
' at the combination rally and or
ganization meeting. Speaking in
behalf of Flagg's candidacy be
. sides the officers were Homer
! Smith, jr., E. L Crawford. Paul
; B. Wallace, Karl Steiwer, R.
1 Shelton, E. S. Benjamin, Joe L.
i Himmal, Howard Eisman, Glenn
W. Stevens, George Manolis, C.
H. Hoyt, T. W, Holman, A. C.
: Gerlinger, R. S. Adolph. Vernon
Perry, A. J. Rahn, Jim Cook and
) Ralph. Bent.
: Flagg, recently returned from
j an extended campaign Journey
i through eastern Oregon, announ
ced that he feels confident he
will get a heavy vote In that
sector. He said he will speak in
Medford and Coos Bay on Fri
day; Bend on Monday of next
week; and In Prineville before
the republican central committee
on next Tuesday night
After a brief swing along the
coast, Flagg said he will concen
trate his campaign on Portland
and the Willamette valley. Flagg
said his pre-primary drive will
include numerous radio speeches,
personal appearances and bill
board advertising.
Flagg told the group he is now
more confident than ever that he
will edge out the incumbent can
didate, Secretary of State Earl
T. Newbry.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
(From SrpC 1 to April )
Thia Year
41 M
Last Year
33.06
Average
33 as
effort which be has given to the
many important legal matters en
trusted to him. His rise to a posi
tion of eminence in the field of
law has been steady if not spec
tacular. He has handled successfully
numerous important cases, both
in private practice and during his
tenure as chief civil deputy dis
trict attorney for Multnomah
county, an office which he recent
ly resigned to devote his time and
talents to broader fields.
Mr. Jones is now engaged, in a
vigorous, state-wide campaign for
the office to which bo aspires. He
has been picked by many prom
inent Oregon republicans as the
man who can defeat the present
incumbent.
Jones is a veteran of World war
L having served overseas for two
and one-half years as a lieutenant
in the 372nd infantry. He served
for one year at the front where he
was attached to the French Army
Intelligence, and was twice woun
ded, and awarded the Purple
Heart and other decorations for
gallantry in action. Many war
veterans throughout the state are
backing him to win the nomina
tion. On pafe 4: Frank Farmer.
(Xeaaoirew: George Meooer.)
Europe
Workers
Split Into
2 Camps
By Hal Cooper
LONDON, April 29 - (P) - The
Communist issue has split the
workers of western Europe into
two camps for the 59th observance
of May day as an international
labor holiday.
Seldom has the choice been pre
sented so clearly in the free cap
itals of the old world.
In the past. Communists every
where boldly claimed May day as
their own a time for the year's
biggest demonstration on behalf of
their dreamed -of world revolution
of the proletariat.
This time the more moderate
left, represented in most cases by
the socialists, refuse even to be
seen in the same parade with the
communists.
In some democratic capitals, Oslo
and Stockholm for example. Com
munist overtures for a joint cele
bration were rejected.
Rival Festivities
Rival parades and meetings were
scheduled for Saturday in London,
Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Par
is. Berlin. Amsterdam and Brussels.
There will be separate celebration
even in Helsinki despite the re
cent Ruian-Finnish mutual as
sistance pact.
Precautions were taken in Italy
and the free territory of Trieste to
prevent the celebrations from lead
ing to disorders.
British and American authori
ties in Trieste ordered pro-Italian
and pro-Yugoslav elements to cel
ebrate the day only in their own
sectors of the free territory. The
Communists objected. The author
ities partly closed the frontier to
prevent Yugoslavs from filtering
into the British-American rone for
the occasion.
Troops Get Weapons
US. troops in Trieste were giv
en weapons in preparation for a
tense weekend. Special guards
were assigned to military instal
lations. There were reports of hidden
arms in the northern Italian In
dustrial center in Milan. Yester
day police searched houses In San
Giuliano, a Milan suburb, and
gathered explosives, several pis
tols, two machineguns, hand gre
nades and hundreds of shells.
Dewey Tour
Plans Drawn
Final plans for Gov. Thomas
Dewey's tour through the Willam
ette valley were being made at
his headquarters at the Multno
mah hotel in Portland today.
The governor is to traverse from
Portland to Corvallis nest Tues
day, stopping in Salem for an ap
pearance at the statehouse and
also at the noon luncheon of the
Salem Kiwanis club where B. E.
(Kelly) Owens is expected to in
troduce him.
Phil Schnell, Kiwanis president,
said Thursday that available ac-
commodations precluded inviting
all service club members to the
noon luncheon, "much as we'd like
to have them." It was Indicated
that Dewey's entourage, Kiwanis
members and special guests would
be about all who could be cared
for at the Marion hotel session.
Falling Tree
Traps 3 Men
BEND, April 29-i5)- Three for
est workers, trapped under a fall
ing tree in a remote Willamette
national forest area, were recover
ing from their injuries today.
Nolan Rasnick, 26, and James
Roner, 19, of Detroit, and John Ma
sen, 22, of Woodburn, were struck
by a 40-foot tree they had felled
on Blowout creek south of De
troit yesterday.
It was an hour before a road
crew on which young Mason's fa
ther was foreman managed to
reach the scene. They cleared the
road to carry the three men to the
Detroit ranger station. From there
they were brought to a Bend hos
pital. The Woodburn youth was the
least hurt4 He suffered severe leg
bruises. The others had bone frac
tures. QUO SEIIATORS
i7cn 9-7 Lcsl 3-2
Girds for May Day Riots
Forces MaK obd Jaffira EaftGDe
Judged Healthiest Boy, Girl
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Jedscal MarUa eoontr'a healthiest
or ClevertUIe. ana Joanne Mlehels 14, of ML Ansel. o4er the
problem ef hew Jeanne who weighs bat 65 neends. will he able te
carry one ef the heavy flats at the hesa" ef the seventh anaaal 411
health parade throagh downtown streets today. The parade forms
on the eenrtheaee se,nare at 14 o'clock and will boots west oa State
street to Liberty, north on Liberty to Cenrt. then west en Ceert te
Commercial, then north on Commercial to Marlon so, are where
lines will disperse. Parade prises will he awarded at asaombiy la
armory at 1:34. (Photo by Den DUL Statesman photographer.)
19 Win 4-H Spring Show
Ribbons; Parade Today
Nineteen 4-H club members from Marlon county communities
were awarded 20 championship ribbons for their exhibits st the an
nual Marion county 4-11 club spring show In Salem Thursdsy.
The 4-H members, including winners of the annual health eon
test for which awards were made Thursday, will parade through
downtown Salem today beginning at 10 a. m. In the seventh snnusl
Marion county 4-H health parade.
The parade will start at the
court house and end at the armory
at 1:30 when parade prizes will be
awarded. A style revue will fol
low distribution ef the awards.
The annual spring show, held at
Legion hall, concluded its third
day Thursday and will continue
in the hall following the style re
vue today. Boys and girls from
all parts of Marion county have
exhibits entered in the contest.
Double ribbons winners announ
ced Thursday were Sally Klein,
10-year-old dsughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Klein of Aumsville,
Weather Conditions Favor Hill Farmers over
Valley Growers, Survey of Area Indicates
By Llllle L. Madsen
Farm Editor, The Statesman
Hill farmers are going to be
ahead of valley growers this year
unless conditions are revised rap
idly in the next two weeks, sur
veys made Thursday indicate.
Because of better drainage the
farms lying on the hillsides In
Marion and Polk counties are
more fully seeded than those on
valley floors where standing wa
ter has prevented working of
ground.
Farmers in the Silverton Hills
and Union Hill area, in east Mar
ion county, said most of their
spring seeding was now comple
ted and attention was turning al
most completely to strawberries.
Considerable spring wheat was
sown during the past few weeks
in the higher areas. Little barley
is grown here, but quite an acre
age of spring oats waa also planted.
Strawberries are showing bet
tered cared for conditions in the
bill lands than In the lower, mora
poorly drained floor pockets. Ear
hoy ao4 sirl. OoraM WalAre. It.
and Joyce Kuonzl of Middle
Grove. Sally won championships
for exhibits In clothing II and
homemaker II. Joyce took rib
bons for her exhibit in cookery
III and in the bread baking eon-
(Other ribbon winners and ad
ditional details on page 2.)
D.P. BILL APPROVED
WASHINGTON, April 24 -0P-A
melting pot bill that would let
200,000 displaced Europeans come
to the United States was approved
by a house committee today and
sent to the house for, action.
ly cultivation was not done in
most of the larger strawberry
acreage because of the continued
rain, but considerable hoeing and
weeding' were managed during
April until the hill berry fields
are looking almost normal.
Tuesday morning's frosts did
not catch the hill berries as they
were not yet in bloom. A few
were beginning Thursday and
growers expected that by another
week or 10 days blossoming would
be at its full.
Orchard men in the valley did
not believe their trees were badly
damaged by frost. Damage done
had already been accomplished
by cold rains during pollinlzatlon
time. Any damage by the frost
was dissipated by a fog bank.
Peach men are very dubious about
any crop at alL Cherry and prune
crops will undoubtedly be spotted
as some growers said their trees
were In blossom in time to catch
the cold rains, while others re
ported bees were Just busy In the
blossoms on Thursday, and soma
Arabs Reject
Foreign Guard
At Jerusalem
By The Associated Press
Fighting in Jsffa baited under
a cease tire sgroement last night
after Brtlah artillery had pounded
Jewish lines In the all-Arab city.
The British and Jews are expect
ed to confer this morning on the
fate of the Palestine coastal city
which Jewish warriors of Irgun
Zvsi Leu ml have penetrated in a
drive from neighboring Tel Aviv.
In the Jordan river valley sep
arating Palestine from Trans-Jordan,
Jews and Arabs skirmished
for strongpolnts. The region Is of
particular Importance If the Arab
states carry out their threat to send
regular army troops Into the Holy
Land to oppose the Jews.
Trans -Jordan government
sources st Amman said at least
30,000 regular troops from Arab
states "will rescue Palestine be
fore May 1S.H the date the British
mandate ends. These troops will
bo under the titular command of
King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan,
the informants said. An Egyptian
cabinet member said in Cairo that
large Egyptian army forest have
been sent to the Palestine frontier.
At Lake Success. Arabs told the
United Nations trusteeship council
they were opposed to the idea of
sending foreign-troop! under the
JH. to protect Jerusalem, holy
city of Christians, Jews and Mos
lems. The Jews agreed to the pro
posal.
The opposition of the Arabs vir
tually killed efforts to rreste an
international police force for Je
rusalem. Jews and Arabs previ
ously had agreed to a cease fire
in the old walled area of the city.
Europe looked ahead to the B9lh
observance of Msy dsy as an Inter
national labor holldsy. The (pill
between east and west was clesrly
revealed In plans for celebrations.
Rciithcr Gaso
Tip Said Hot'
DETROIT. April tt.-WVWsyne
County Prosecutor James N. Ms
Nail today quizzed a pair of pri
vate detectives and an unnamed
third man la connection with the
April 20 shoo tin or LIU united
Auto Workers President Walter
P. Reuthcr.
He described as "the hottest tip
we've had so far" a formal state
ment taken from Harvey O. Ken
nedy. 49. who formerly operated
a private detective agency at Port
Huron, Mich., and moved to De
troit two and a halt years ago.
MsNaUy said he planned to ob
tain another formal statement
from Sam Henderson. 46. whom
he described as a partner of Ken
nedy's. The two men were held with
out charge for Investigation, sfter
police learned about the rental t
a red automobile a few hours be
fore Reuther was hit in the arm by
a shotgun blast through the kit
chen window of his home.
crop was being hoped for.
Cant berry growers expressed
some fear of damage both from
the continued rain soaked roow
and tho Inability to work the soil
However, damage in these fielgi
can better be told In m couple e:
weeks, they said.
While planting of barley may
still be done In the valley If V
ground gets workable, acreage of
other grains will be considerable
below earlier anticipated acreages
farmers said Thursday.
. Grain crops, clover and grssr
seedings planted last fall art
showing good growth, but fall
rains cut these down more thar
go per cent of the regular acrega
and aome shortages, particularly
In hay and oats, are feared.
But the sun shines well for th
sheep men they report Lambs an
coming along exceptionally tin
and prices are remaining "nice."
The lamb crop la small, not be
cause of weather condition, bui
because the number of eweeu
farms has been gradually going
down U recent years.